IE on pace to drop below 50% share by 2011

[nate]

firefox gets worse with every update too. It opens like a pig waking up, renders shit slow and crashes about 5 times a day. Its better than ie, but not by very much anymore.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by nate

firefox gets worse with every update too. It opens like a pig waking up, renders shit slow and crashes about 5 times a day. Its better than ie, but not by very much anymore.

My love of Firefox is decreasing as well -- not enough to start using IE again, but it's certainly not as quick as it once was. I've tried disabling all of my plugins to no avail, but now I only keep active the ones which I use daily. Every once in awhile, when I go to open FF, I get the warning that it's already running. So I check the task manager and see that FF is running in the background and consuming 99% of my PC's processing power. Makes me wonder if it really was running all that time, or if it was a failed start-up.

[stuveltje]

I use Firefox as my main browser, i have to admit same like Nate and UW, firefox is getting realy a pain in the ass sometimes, but with reviewing its for me the safest browser, i saw 2 days ago a link on the dutch newspaper website for the new ie 7 or so to try, i was doubting it to check and try, but since i never use ie to surf for the last 4 years, i wont even go there.

[kickass]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Every once in awhile, when I go to open FF, I get the warning that it's already running. So I check the task manager and see that FF is running in the background and consuming 99% of my PC's processing power. Makes me wonder if it really was running all that time, or if it was a failed start-up.

Same thing happens to me sometimes, the reason for it is a previous failure that made FF to not close properly.

About the topic of the thread, i can't say I'm surprised, IE is getting worse all the time, I only use it when I run into a site that for some reason works with IE only.

[kriss]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

My love of Firefox is decreasing as well -- not enough to start using IE again, but it's certainly not as quick as it once was. I've tried disabling all of my plugins to no avail, but now I only keep active the ones which I use daily. Every once in awhile, when I go to open FF, I get the warning that it's already running. So I check the task manager and see that FF is running in the background and consuming 99% of my PC's processing power. Makes me wonder if it really was running all that time, or if it was a failed start-up.

+1 still prefer firefox to IE but found firefox bugs increasing each update..